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Friday, March 30, 2018

Final installment. I, for one, am quite happy with the direction it took and the way it got resolved.

Full circle. John the normal sociopath has been building his conscious ethics across all these books and has made a virtue out of choice. Doing the right thing is not something that comes naturally, but having self-imposed limits means that he defines his world and himself in a way that the demons have categorically *not* been able to do.

Supernatural sociopaths are the closest thing he has to kinship with anyone, too. That was very clear in the previous book.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense that amid all the bloodshed and gruesome murders he feels the need to redefine his relationship with his greatest foes, focusing on choice, not revenge.

He doesn't feel things like normal people do. It only follows that he feels a kinship with the monsters.

That being said, I loved returning back to his hometown to finish the war with all the monsters. And things are dark. Very dark. It's the best feature of these novels.

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That goblin was just the sweetest child emperor I've ever known. He was always courteous and polite, even when he was abducted. He was so centered and contained even during that that time he almost took the knife of that assassin. Do you...

Crowd of Bone
Sparse and perfect prose as poetry. Old tales piled upon myth and returning back to tale. If your bones could tell the tale through the ashes, they would step through the seasons. You would run in the clouds.
This is poet...

As always, the fight scenes are top-knotch, over the top, and satisfyingly overpowered. Oh, and new reveals for our MC's! Actual Limitations? Holy Crap! I never would have guessed!
As a side note, I'd like to point out that while I real...

So the Union bullies are back and are even more powerful and stupid than the last crew that came by. Who knew? Oh, at least they brought along an Elder who is gonna get betrayed, and hard, by Evil Villian #1. Convenient, eh? Who cares. T...

It was funny to see all of these uber-powerful characters pussyfoot around with each other, each one pretending to be perfectly normal humans. The kids were amusing in their own right, but it's always about the uber-powerful in the end.
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